DivX to VCD

[Jonny Rat]

Hi all, I've looked through for an answer to my question but to no avail so far. I'm trying to turn an .avi (DivX) into a VCD. The process works in ffmpegx, but only when 'decode with quicktime' isn't used, and creates synch problems. However, when I used quicktime to decode instead it it created a blank video stream (audio OK).
Following some of the advice in here, I installed the QT MPEG-2 component (to system/library/QT). Now, however, the decode with QT option just produces a garbled videostream.
Sorry if I'm being dim about all this; I'm a full on noob at all this.
Cheers!

[major]

"Decode with Quicktime" will normally work if Quicktime player is able to play the input movie.

[Jonny Rat]

Cheers for the advice; there was indeed a problem with QT's DivX component. Installing the 3ivx component solved the problem. Good work on FFmpegx; it's an excellent piece of software.

[kay101011]

and how do you brun the output-files??
there are a cuple of files produced by ffmpegx:
-the mpeg2 audiostream .mp2
-the mpeg2 video .m2v
-the muxed signal .mpg (whitch i actually burn with toast to a vcd)
but there are also 2 imagefiles and a toc-file - somehow you can use the to burn the vcd - but it won't work on my system, i can't even mount that files! what is wrong??

[major]

If you selected VCD preset, you should have obtained VCD authored files, that is, .bin and .cue (only the .bin should be burned in Toast 5 VCD mode). Other presets like CVD and SVCD enable the SVCD authoring, which make a .toc and two .img files. To burn these, you should use Toast 5 in Multitrack XA mode, and drop the two files (_1 first, _2 second) and burn. The .toc file is needed to burn with MMB instead of Toast.

[larrybob]

The VCD's I have burned from divx avi's are always out of sync with the audio. Any advicd?

[major]

Do they play insync with VLC or Mplayer?

[larrybob]

Is there an mplayer for Mac?

I tried to play the disc (VCD) in VLC, but I only got errors.

It plays fine in my DVD player other than the audio being out of sync.

[major]

Yes, there is Mplayer OSX for Mac (get it from VersionTracker.com).

[kay101011]

hmm .... toast can't read the 2. image-file (neither 5.2 then 6) - there is no readable filesystem. when i ignore it trys to create a filesystem - but this will produce a dummy-file with the size of the orig. image.

[major]

You need to select Others > Multitrack XA Mode before dropping your .img files into Toast.